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Taxon name
Themeda triandra Forssk.
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Type: Yemen. Original material not located; no original material attributed to this name has been found at C — see Hepper & Friis 1994: 280 and Veldkamp 2016).
Neotype (designated here): Yemen: San'a': Rocky hill, South side of mouth of wadi Dhahr. North of Sana'a, 15°26'24''N, 44°7'15''E, 02/04/1974, Lavranos J.J. 11368 (E00356356). https://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00356356.
Isoneotype: E00356357 https://data.rbge.org.uk/herb/E00356357.
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Themeda triandra Forssk., Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.: 178 (1775).
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The original material of Themeda triandra Forssk. (collected by Forsskål in Yemen) has not been located, and probably never reached its destination at Copenhagen herbarium (C). In accordance with ICN Art. 9.8 and 9.16, the above Edinburgh specimen is here designated as neotype to fix the application of the name. It is consistent with the protologue description and with the current circumscription of this widespread, polymorphic species. Informal phrase names here included within Themeda triandra:
= Themeda sp. Hamersley Station (M.E. Trudgen 11431) WA Herbarium
= Themeda sp. Mt Barricade (M.E. Trudgen 2471) WA Herbarium
These informal phrase names (used for putative entities in the Pilbara region of Western Australia) are here treated as taxonomic synonyms of Themeda triandra Forssk. They fall within the morphological and geographical variation currently accepted for the species.
Themeda triandra is a highly variable, predominantly apomictic perennial grass distributed across Africa, tropical and subtropical Asia, and Australia. The designation of a neotype from Edinburgh stabilises the name in the absence of original material. The Western Australian phrase names listed above are considered conspecific pending further morphological, cytological or molecular study.
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